Rubio Drops Shocking Revelation About USAID Fraud
Charlie Kirk Staff
05/22/2025

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the former Republican governor of Florida, has made a stunning disclosure about USAID.
The Secretary of State said that a mere 12 cents of every dollar in the organization was actually used for humanitarian aid when he spoke to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday.
“Even with the reforms we put in place, and what we’re suggesting as changes to our foreign aid, we still will provide more foreign aid, more humanitarian support, than the next 10 countries combined, than the entire OECD. And far more than China,” the Secretary of State said.
“China doesn’t do humanitarian aid. China does predatory lending. That’s what the Belt and Road Initiative is. That’s what all of their ‘aid’ is. They have zero record of doing humanitarian aid in the world. And frankly, they don’t know how to do it. They have no interest in doing it. What they’re very good at is going into some country, making you a loan, and then holding that debt over your head. And that’s what they continue doing. By the way, you have to hire a Chinese company to do it,” he said to the senators.
“So I don’t agree with this assessment, there’s any evidence whatsoever that China has either the capacity or the will to replace the U.S. in humanitarian assistance, in food deliveries, or in developmental assistance, for that matter. We provide development assistance. They provide debt traps. And that’s a point we’ve made over and over again around the world—and we’ve found receptive audiences to it,” Rubio said.
“Now look, anytime you undertake reforms of this magnitude—and they needed to be made—you’re going to have hiccups. And you’re also going to have controversy. But these reforms had to happen,” the Secretary of State said.
“At USAID, 12 cents of every dollar was reaching the recipient. That means that in order for us to get aid to somebody, we had to spend all this other money supporting this foreign aid industrial complex,” Rubio said.
“We’re going to find more efficient ways to deliver aid to people directly. It’s going to be directed by our regional bureaus. It’s going to sponsor programs that make a difference. And it’s going to be part of a holistic approach to our foreign policy. And I look forward to engaging with this committee and the appropriators as well in ensuring that we get to the right place on that,” he said.